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The 2 trees in the Garden of Eden

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Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

In Genesis 2:17 God gave a warning to man, not to partake the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Because the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil uplifts the human soul and suppresses the spirit. When man partakes of this fruit, man's soul life will be stimulated and his spirit life will be stifled. This means man will lose the true knowledge of God and thus be dead to Him. The knowledge of good and evil will puff up the soul life and consequently deflates the spirit life to the point of losing any knowledge of God, to the point of becoming as much as dead.

However, the tree of life is different. This is eternal life, God's nature, His uncreated life. This tree germinates spiritual life. When we partake of this tree, we become partaker of God's divine nature.

(From Watchman Nee - The Spiritual Man)

Thus man has to make a choice: either to choose the tree of life or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” (Stephen R. Covey)
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  1. AnonymousJuly 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM

    A book is made from a Tree. Books contains knowledge and have leaves. This book contains knowledge of good and bad. The Book is the Bible, and that is the book we are reading from. So what is the fruit in this book. A cross is made from a tree. Jesus was nailed to a tree.
    The tree bears Jesus.

    Jesus is the fruit from the New Testament.

    God say do not eat, don't take in, the fruit from the Tree. God says don't eat Jesus.

    Mel

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  2. AnonymousJuly 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    In the next verse God tells us exactly who Satan is. Your not going to like this either.
    Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that god had made. So it began to say to the women: "Is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree of the garden?"

    God says a snake is a wild beast. Most of us know that a snake is a reptile and not a beast. A beast is a mammal. Is God confused. Or is he having a senior moment. No, he isn't. He is saying the snake is really a mammal that talks. Of all of the mammals only man can talk. So Satan is really a man. We now have 3 people in the garden. Next how do snakes deceive us? We think the snake is a stick until it moves. The stick talks. What we have is a man with characteristics of a stick. Does this sound familiar. The Church talks from the Cross. A cross is a stick. Satan is the Roman Catholic Church.

    Satan says: "Is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree of the garden?"

    Satan knows what God said. Now how does Satan know what God had to say? He read the Old Testament.

    Mel

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